!!! FEA D5: Dynamic analysis of a 4-bar linkage ! Created by Gergely Gyebroszki, 2018.04.19. !! Units in mm/MPa !! Parameters AREA=0.063 IZZ=0.00525 IYY=2.084e-5 TKZ=0.063 K1=10e6 K2=10e6 K3=10e6 K4=1.5528e-4 E=10e6 NU=0.3 RHO=2.588e-4 DAMPING1=0.000139 DAMPING2=0.000278 !! SETUP KEYW,PR_STRUC,1 /PREP7 ET,1,BEAM4 ET,2,COMBIN7 R,1,AREA,IZZ,IYY,TKZ R,2,K1,K2,K3,K4 MPTEMP,1,0 MPDATA,EX,1,,E MPDATA,PRXY,1,,NU MPDATA,DENS,1,,RHO MPDATA,DMPR,1,,DAMPING1 MPDATA,EX,2,,E MPDATA,PRXY,2,,NU MPDATA,DENS,2,,RHO MPDATA,DMPR,2,,DAMPING2 !! MODELLING N,,0 N,,2.5 N,,2.5 ! New local coord system LOCAL,11,0,2.5,0,0,66.024, , ,1,1, CSYS,11 N,,2.5 N,,5.5 N,,8.5 N,,11.0 N,,11.0 CSYS,0 *AFUN,DEG ! Second local CS LOCAL,12,0,2.5+11*cos(66.024),11*sin(66.024),0,-73.21,,,1,1, CSYS,12 N,,2.5 N,,5.25 N,,8.0 N,,10.5 ! Create BEAM4 elements 1-5 MAT,1 TYPE,1 REAL,1 E,1,2 E,3,4 E,4,5 E,5,6 E,6,7 MAT,2 E,8,9 E,9,10 E,10,11 E,11,12 ! Create Joint elements TYPE,2 REAL,2 E,2,3 E,7,8 ! Constraints D,1,UX D,1,UY D,12,UX D,12,UY D,ALL,UZ ! Gravity ACEL,209.4,324.7,0 FINISH !! SOLUTION /SOL ! Load step 1 ANTYPE,4 ! Analysis type: Transient TRNOPT,FULL ! Solution method: FULL LUMPM,0 ! Lumped mass approximation: OFF NLGEOM,1 ! Large displacement static AUTOTS,0 ! Auto stepping: OFF NSUBST,1 ! Number of substeps NEQIT,50 ! Number of Equilibrium iterations TIME,0.001 ! Time at the end of step TIMINT,0 ! Transient effect: OFF OUTRES,ALL,1 ! Write every substep ! Rotz = -0.041888 on left linkage (-1.2°) D,1,ROTZ,-0.041888 LSWRITE,1 ! Load step 2 TIME,0.6 ! Time at the end of step NSUBST,99 ! Number of substeps TIMINT,1 ! Transient effect: ON KBC,0.0 ! Ramped loading NEQIT,30 ! Number of Equilibrium iterations ! Rotz = -25.13274 on left linkage (-720°) D,1,ROTZ,-25.13274 LSWRITE,2 LSSOLVE,1,2,1 !! TIME HISTORY POSTPROCESSING /POST26 /RGB,INDEX,100,100,100,0 /RGB,INDEX,0,0,0,15 /XRANGE,0,0.6 ! Displacement of Node 2 NSOL,2,2,U,Y,UY_NODE2 PLVAR,2 /IMAGE,SAVE,UY_Node2,bmp ! Click here to view image ! Reaction moment on Node 1 RFORCE,3,1,M,Z,MZ_NODE1 /COLOR,CURVE,RED,1 PLVAR,3 /IMAGE,SAVE,MZ_Node3,bmp ! Click here to view image ! Animate over time ANTIME,100,0.2, ,1,2,0,0.6 ! Click here to view animation